A pilot steered his plane away from Huddersfield golfers before crashing.

Eye-witnesses to the drama at Crosland Heath Golf Club said it appeared the vintage biplane was about to crash on the fifth green, where golfers were playing.

But at the last second it veered away and crash-landed on land close to the 16th fairway.

Golfers rushed to help the pilot, a man in his 50s, who was able to climb out of the cockpit unaided.

The vintage double-winged plane is a regular sight at nearby Crosland Moor Airfield and has been nicknamed The Red Baron, after the German World War 1 ace pilot Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.